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Friday, May 31, 2013
3 dead in Arkansas; more storms to strike region
This image provided by KFOR-TV shows storm clouds moving over Guthrie, Okla., on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., warns there?s a moderate risk of severe weather over much of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday, the same area where a tornado last week killed 24 people. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT
This image provided by KFOR-TV shows storm clouds moving over Guthrie, Okla., on Thursday, May 30, 2013. The Storm Prediction Center in Norman, Okla., warns there?s a moderate risk of severe weather over much of eastern and central Oklahoma on Thursday, the same area where a tornado last week killed 24 people. (AP Photo/KFOR-TV) MANDATORY CREDIT
This NOAA satellite image taken Friday, May 31, 2013 at 01:45 AM EDT shows fair weather across much of the Eastern US. Frontal boundary over the Midwest and Mississippi Valley with light to moderate rain and scattered thunderstorms, some being severe. (AP PHOTO/Weather Underground)
A wall cloud forms near Interstate 35 and Purcell, Okla. on Thursday, May 30, 2013. At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
A wall cloud forms near Interstate 35 and Purcell, Okla. on Thursday, May 30, 2013. At least two tornadoes touched down in Oklahoma and another hit Arkansas on Thursday as a powerful storm system moved through the middle of the country. At least nine injuries were reported. (AP Photo/Alonzo Adams)
Y CITY, Ark. (AP) ? Flash flooding and tornadoes killed three people in Arkansas as powerful storms swept through the nation's midsection, including a local sheriff who drowned while checking on residents whose house was eventually swamped by rising water, authorities said Friday. Three other people are missing.
The storms rolled across the region overnight, and more bad weather was poised to strike Friday, with tornadoes and baseball-sized hail forecast from Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. Flooding also is a concern in parts of Missouri, Iowa and Illinois through Sunday.
Torrential rain, including at least 6 inches in the rugged terrain of western Arkansas, posed the greatest danger the night before. In Y City, about 125 miles west of Little Rock, the Fourche La Fave River rose 24 feet in just 24 hours.
"The water just comes off that hill like someone is pouring a bucket in there," said Danny Straessle, spokesman for the Arkansas Department of Highway and Transportation. "This was an incredible amount of water."
Scott County Sheriff Cody Carpenter died while trying to check on local residents during the storm. He and wildlife officer Joel Campora had traveled by boat up Mill Creek to reach two people who called for assistance ? and the river swamped the house while they were still inside.
"Other deputies heard a loud crash," said Bill Hollenbeck, the sheriff of neighboring Sebastian County. "They thought that the bridge had actually collapsed. Looking into it further, the house had imploded as a directly result of rising waters from Mill Creek."
Carpenter's body was recovered about a mile downstream. Campora and the two women inside the home remained missing Friday, Hollenbeck said.
"We're here right now for recovery or rescue. We're still remaining optimistic about our officer at this time," said Mike Knoedl, director of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission. "(Campora) was an epitome of what a wildlife officer should be, and he was doing what he was trained to do last night."
A man died after strong winds toppled a tree onto his car in Tull, just west of Little Rock. Authorities also are attributing the death of a woman in Scott County to the flooding, though they've release no information other than her body was found in her car.
Up to a dozen tornadoes touched down in mostly rural parts of Arkansas on Thursday, as well as three in Oklahoma and one in Illinois. In Oklahoma, one twister bounced through the Tulsa suburb of Broken Arrow, causing some structural damage, but no injuries.
The National Weather Service sent teams to survey the aftermath of Thursday's storms in Arkansas. The warning coordination meteorologist in Little Rock, John Robinson, said it could take days for the weather service to confirm whether tornadoes struck as flooded highways were hindering access to the storm-hit areas.
Thursday's tornadoes were all less dangerous than the top-of-the-scale EF5 storm that struck Moore, Okla., on May 20 and killed 24 along its 17-mile path.
The U.S. averages more than 1,200 tornadoes a year, but EF5 storms like the one in Moore ? with winds over 200 mph ? happen only about once per year. The tornado last week was the nation's first EF5 since 2011.
This spring's tornado season got a late start, with unusually cool weather keeping funnel clouds at bay until mid-May. The season usually starts in March and then ramps up for the next couple of months.
Of the 60 EF5 tornadoes since 1950, Oklahoma and Alabama have been struck the most, seven times each. More than half of these top-of-the-scale twisters have occurred in just five states: Alabama, Iowa, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas.
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Associated Press writers Ken Miller in Oklahoma City, Jill Bleed and Kelly P. Kissel in Little Rock, Ark., and Seth Borenstein in Washington contributed to this report.
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Thursday, May 30, 2013
Is This Miniature Instagram Projector Adorable Or Completely Stupid?
I hate everything but for some reason find this little projector to be the cutest and most adorable thing in the world. Projecteo is a miniature projector?about the size of a jar of Carmex?that transfers nine of your Instagram photos onto a single frame of 35mm Kodak film for you to then show your friends or whatever.
Kelsey, Kyle and I find the $35 ($26 for the projector, $9 per slide) setup to be a wonderful gift for anyone. The rest of the staff it seems?most notably Brian and Andrew?hate the thing. Sure, the quality seems a little crap and you're probably better off showing those nine images on your iPhone or Android phone but it's so tiny and kawaii!
What do you think? Crap or totally awesome? [Projecteo]
Source: http://gizmodo.com/is-this-miniature-instagram-projector-adorable-or-compl-510317798
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This Is How Iron Man 3 Should Have Ended
Like, duh. If you have a lot of Iron Man suits, you use those Iron Man suits to blow things up. Especially bad guys. If you don't enjoy doing that, then don't be Iron Man! Go be Peace Corp Man instead.
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Debuting Its Second Batch Of 18 Companies, 500 Startups Looks To Become The Most Active Seed Fund In Mexico
500 Startups appears to be on a mission to take over the world. With about 20 percent of its capital going to international companies, the seed fund and accelerator has expanded its scope to include India, Japan, China, Southeast Asia, Brazil and last year it snatched up LatAm startup accelerator, Mexican.VC, to aid with its efforts south of the border.Source: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Lc0St8aPFUI/
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Transform Any Unity Project Into a Relativistic Playground With OpenRelativity
From what I can tell (I just played their example game), its not a physics engine, just some tweaked shaders (and likely tweaked culling to match). The only stuff of real interest here are the rendering changes. There may be some physics in there, but the dynamics type physics wasn't very interesting/apparent.
It looks like the distortions are done in the vertex shader, which means you need high vertex densities for high distortions to look reasonable (geometry shader based tessellation would resolve this).
Source: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdotScience/~3/MAFCVyE6BwI/story01.htm
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Religious Influence In U.S. Seen As Decreasing, But Most Americans Want More: Survey
A majority of Americans believe that religion's influence in the nation is waning, yet also think society would be better off if more Americans were religious, according to a new survey.
The results, released Wednesday by Gallup, represent some of the lowest ratings Americans have given to religious influence in the United States since the organization first began asking about the subject more than 40 years ago.
About 77 percent of Americans said religion is "losing its influence" on American life, while only 20 percent said religion has gained in influence.
The numbers are similar to responses given in recent years about the role of religion in the U.S., but the gap has gradually widened between how many believe religion's influence is increasing and how many believe it's decreasing. Only in the year after the Sept. 11 attacks and in 2005 were Americans more likely to believe the national role of religion was increasing. But the latest responses represent some of the worst ratings given to religion's role since 1969 and 1970, during the Vietnam War and in the midst of countercultural movements around politics and sexuality.
"In general, highly religious Americans are neither more nor less likely to say religion is losing its influence than those who are not religious. There is, however, a modest relationship between Americans' ideology as well as partisanship and their views of the influence of religion, with liberals and Democrats more likely than conservatives and Republicans to say religion's influence is increasing in American society," the group said in a statement.
In tandem with that downward trend, about 75 percent of respondents also said it would be good if more Americans were religious. This belief was more prevalent among Americans who regularly go to church and who said religion is important in their lives. But the survey also found that more than half of respondents who "seldom or never attend" a place of worship and "close to one in three Americans who say religion is not important to them personally" said society would benefit if more Americans were religious.
"The fact that most Americans think the country would be better off if more Americans were religious shows that many of those who believe religion is losing its influence may think this is a negative state of affairs," Gallup said in its statement.
Researchers stressed that the survey's results don't represent Americans' own religious beliefs, such as how often people go to religious services or the importance of religion in respondents' daily lives.
Gallup conducted the survey via telephone May 2-7 with a random sample of 1,535 adults. The margin of error was 3 percent.
Earlier on HuffPost:
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Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/29/religions-influence-us_n_3354499.html
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I cant imagine dirty things with my crush. - Empty Closets - A safe ...
Hi again!
Yes, I know I have no experience with sex or whatever but I agree with you that you love him so much that you just don't want sex. Or at least you do want sex but just can't really, you know, dream of it? Anyway, it might be that you have an unconditional attraction, a literal true love for him, and that you don't just want the sex, but you want the emotion, the affection and the attraction.
I know I'm younger than you but you are still young yourself at 20, and (I think anyway) you are still progressing. In my opinion, a romantic relationship is not all about the sex, but the actual love. I don't think that I think that because I'm young, but I think that when I'm older I'll still consider the love more than the physical part. I don't know whether you believe the same.
Your thoughts on sex with him may change in the future, and because he's your crush, I'm assuming you don't properly know him? It might have something to do with that you don't want to fantasize over someone you don't really know that well.
Hope I Helped!
Source: http://emptyclosets.com/forum/chit-chat/95851-i-cant-imagine-dirty-things-my-crush.html
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Tuesday, May 28, 2013
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Obama says don't take American troops for granted
ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) ? President Barack Obama said Monday that Americans must honor the sacrifices of their fighting men and women, particularly at a time when the U.S. combat role in Iraq has ended and the country's involvement in Afghanistan is winding down.
Speaking at Memorial Day ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery, Obama said he worries that the country's servicemen and women aren't being fully appreciated in an era in which "most Americans are not directly touched by war." He said he couldn't explain that phenomenon but said it might have something to do with the all-volunteer military force and advanced technology that now permits the United States to accomplish some military missions with far fewer personnel.
But Obama did say that even as "we turn a page" away from Iraq, and Afghanistan by the end of 2014, "let us never forget that the nation is still at war."
He said that some troops and military families "mention to me their concern about whether the country fully appreciates" them.
Obama's Memorial Day appearance at the venerable Arlington burial grounds came four days after he declared in a major national security address that the U.S. has taken down the al-Qaida terrorist organization, particularly in the aftermath of the killing of leader Osama bin Laden, although terrorist threats remain and the country cannot afford to let its vigilance slide.
Obama spoke on a sun-splashed morning at the amphitheater of Arlington National Cemetery after he placed a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. That was preceded by a playingof the National Anthem and followed by the placing of "Taps."
In his speech, he said that Arlington "has always been home to men and women who are willing to give their all ... to preserve and protect the land that we love."
He praised the selflessness that "beats in the hearts" of America's uniformed military troops.
Keeping with a tradition he established earlier in his presidency, Obama stopped at Section 60 before departing and walked among the graves of the war dead from Iraq and Afghanistan.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/obama-says-dont-american-troops-granted-155355924.html
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Baltimore Orioles vs Washington Nationals 5/28/2013
The Washington Nationals are 14-11 at home this season and the Baltimore Orioles are 17-11 on the road this season. This is a close match-up with both teams having a 45 to 55 percent chance of winning based on 10,000 game simulations generated one play at a time by the AccuScore Simulation Supercomputer. Nationals\' starter Nate Karns is forecasted to have a better game than Orioles\' starter Kevin Gausman. Nate Karns has a 32% chance of having a Quality Start (QS) while Kevin Gausman has a 25% chance of a QS. If Nate Karns has a quality start the Nationals has a 72% chance of winning. His simulated strikeout to walk ratio is 2.1 and he has a 12% chance of having a 5 to 1 K/BB ratio. When he has a 5/1 ratio the Nationals win 59%. In Kevin Gausman quality starts the Orioles win 65%. He has a 25% chance of having a 5 to 1 K/BB ratio and if he does his team wins 65% of simulations. In simulations we tracked the batter for each team that was most productive based his average hits, walks and RBI per simulation. The most productive batter for the Washington Nationals is Bryce Harper who averaged 2.44 hits+walks+RBI. He has a 43% chance of having a big game with 3+ Hits, Walks, RBI and if he has a big game the Nationals have a 59% chance of winning. The most productive batter for the Baltimore Orioles is Chris Davis who averaged 2.63 hits+walks+RBI. He has a 46% chance of having a big game with 3+ Hits, Walks, RBI and if he has a big game the Orioles have a 64% chance of winning.
CURRENT SEASON: We advise relying on these trends after the first 6 to 8 weeks of the season. UNITS EDGE FAVORS: Baltimore Orioles
| Baltimore Orioles | RECORD | Washington Nationals | RECORD | UNITS EDGE |
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| Record on the Road | 17-11, 61% 854 | Record at Home | 14-11, 56% -117 | Baltimore Orioles |
| VS Washington Nationals | 1-0, 100% 133 | VS Baltimore Orioles | 0-1, 0% -100 | Baltimore Orioles |
| vs Team .500 or Better | 13-10, 57% 489 | vs Team Under .500 | 15-10, 60% -81 | Baltimore Orioles |
| Record as Road Favorite | 3-4, 43% -138 | Record as Home Underdog | 3-1, 75% 215 | Washington Nationals |
| When Kevin Gausman Starts | 0-1, 0% -100 | When Nate Karns Starts | 0-0 No Games | Washington Nationals |
PAST 30 DAYS: We advise incorporating these trends along with the current Season after the first 6 to 8 weeks. UNITS EDGE FAVORS: Baltimore Orioles
| Baltimore Orioles | RECORD | Washington Nationals | RECORD | UNITS EDGE |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Record on the Road | 9-7, 56% 282 | Record at Home | 5-5, 50% -86 | Baltimore Orioles |
| VS Washington Nationals | 1-0, 100% 133 | VS Baltimore Orioles | 0-1, 0% -100 | Baltimore Orioles |
| vs Team Under .500 | 6-4, 60% 158 | vs Team Under .500 | 2-5, 29% -345 | Baltimore Orioles |
| Record as Road Favorite | 3-4, 43% -138 | Record as Home Underdog | 2-0, 100% 219 | Washington Nationals |
| When Kevin Gausman Starts | 0-1, 0% -100 | When Nate Karns Starts | 0-0 No Games | Washington Nationals |
OVER-UNDER TRENDS: This game is trending Over
| Baltimore Orioles | RECORD | Washington Nationals | RECORD | O-U EDGE |
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| OVER-UNDER ON ROAD | 18-9, 67% Over | OVER-UNDER AT HOME | 12-12, 50% Over | OVER |
| ROAD OVER-UNDER PAST 30 DAYS | 12-3, 80% Over | ROAD OVER-UNDER PAST 30 DAYS | 6-3, 67% Over | OVER |
| ROAD OVER-UNDER LAST SEASON | 32-52, 38% Over | ROAD OVER-UNDER LAST SEASON | 43-40, 52% Over | UNDER |
| OVER-UNDER IN Kevin Gausman STARTS | 1-0, 100% Over | OVER-UNDER IN Nate Karns STARTS | 0-0 No Games | N/A |
ACCUSCORE ADVISOR: AccuScore simulates every game thousands of times one play at a time. We are the industry standard in sports forecasting and the only company to be paid for sports picks and predictions by the biggest sports companies in the world. Our newest product, the AccuScore Advisor, provides Side Value, Money Line and Over-Under picks for every MLB game and rates them as One, Two, Three or Four Star picks. Three and Four Star picks have delivered over +10,000 units of profit the past 2 seasons. Visit AccuScore.com to find out what AccuScore\'s Advisor recommends for this game. The following trends are AccuScore\'s RIGHT-WRONG records and units (+/-) when making picks involving these teams.
SIDE VALUE (Current Season) - Baltimore Orioles Road Games: 16-12, 57% +230 Washington Nationals Home Games: 10-15, 40% -644 SIDE VALUE (PAST 30 DAYS) - Baltimore Orioles Road Games: 8-8, 50% -342 Washington Nationals Home Games: 4-6, 40% -240
MONEY LINE (Current Season) - Baltimore Orioles Road Games: 15-13, 54% +120 Washington Nationals Home Games: 13-12, 52% -332 MONEY LINE (PAST 30 DAYS) - Baltimore Orioles Road Games: 8-8, 50% -47 Washington Nationals Home Games: 4-6, 40% -301
OVER-UNDER RECORD (Current Season) - Baltimore Orioles Road Games: 8-14, 36% -740 Washington Nationals Home Games: 8-12, 40% -520 OVER-UNDER RECORD (PAST 30 DAYS) - Baltimore Orioles Road Games: 2-11, 15% -1010 Washington Nationals Home Games: 3-6, 33% -360
Click here to see AccuScore's pick for this game
Source: http://accuscore.com/game-forecast-previews/mlb/5-28-2013/baltimore-orioles-washington-769?ref=acc
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Factors To Consider In Taking Distance Music Lessons - Arts And ...
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Distance learning is the in thing these days considering the fact that the internet is here with us. Well, if you are wondering what distance learning is; it is the learning from a distant location with the help of the internet.Students have opted for distance learning due to the convenience and other advantages that it offers. Well, this however does not make the search for the best college or university to be easy. There are several factors that you ought to have at your fingertips. These would ensure that you end up choosing the best institution to take up music lessons.
The institution chosen
Think through the institution chosen. It is essential that you choose an institution after having all the facts about the ideal school. This means that past records of the school would help a lot in knowing the type of school that you are about to sign up with for your music lessons. Contemplate whether the school has past success stories in music students. This would give you an assurance that you are at the right place in order to get the best teaching.
The tuition fee
There are varieties of music lessons being offered by different institutions all over the internet. This implies that you should settle for those that have reasonable tuition fees.If an institution has unrealistic amounts as their tuition fee, chances are that they would only use your money and would not offers the quality of desired lessons. Thus, the best way to circumvent this is by choosing online music lessons from institutions that have fair prices.
How the programs are offered
Different music students would have different demands. For instance, if you want to crush your program to shorten the learning period, you would have to look for a school that favours this. Depending on your specifications, you would have to choose wisely on the schools that you would be taking up your distance learning program.
Industrial attachment offered
It is also worth considering the industrial attachment that would be offered after you are done with your music lessons. If the school lacks this feature then you should take time to search for the best schools that offer industrial attachment. Keep in mind that the best way to practise your skills is by applying them in real life. This thus makes the industrial attachment to be very crucial.
Period that the lessons take
There are those online lessons that take too long to be completed. The shorter the period the better as this would give you a reason to concentrate on your studies. Avoid music lessons that are lengthy. Chances are that you would forget other important things by the time you complete the entire course.
The above are essential factors that should help you in choosing the best institutions to take up music lessons. Use the guide in making the right decisions that would affect your life positively. Remember, a good school for you is not all about paying high prices for it but it highly depends on the quality of services being offered.
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Monday, May 27, 2013
How To Use Google Plus To Power Your Social Marketing Part 1 ...
How to use Google Plus for Business is a two part blog, with the first part focused on the strategy and concepts of why Google Plus is important to your business. The second part provides some detailed tips and examples of how to maximize Google Plus for your brand/business.
If you want to build a powerful brand on social media you have to learn how to use Google Plus, why? well Google Plus has grown to become the second largest social network as of January 2013.
Google was late to the table with a solid social network offering, at only 2 years old compared to Facebook 9 yrs and Twitter 7 yrs. But despite this it has already transformed Google Plus into a major social network with rich features and mobile apps. Google is making social an underlying part across all its products e.g. you can now see your circles in gmail.
Recently Google changed Google Plus, not just a little they made over 41 changes to Google Plus and launched a new app just for Hangouts. Many of these changes have harmonised the Google Plus experience across smartphone, tablet and PC. The other key change is the Cards.
If you look at your Google Plus stream you will notice that some content stands out much more. They are interactive ?Cards?. Matias Duarte, lead designer of Google?s mobile operating system, Android in the New Yorker, says that ?The idea is that each card is a single atomic contextual piece of information; essentially, a suggestion, a prompt, a call to action,? said Duarte. ?It boils down to focus: in a very constrained space, they can communicate one thing really well.?
Why You Need To Learn How To Use Google Plus
If you are serious about online marketing then you know that Google plays an important part in what you do and how you do it, from SEO to Adwords to YouTube. The scale and scope of how Google affects your online presence in undeniable. First of all Google is the most important search engine with over 82% of search and it controls how you rank in the majority of search and what content is presented to people.
As we have become more social Google has changed how it scores websites and content. If you also are searching for information and come across a blog or article that is relevant and high quality you are more likely to share it. This social proof becomes a way of scoring your content ? the more your content is shared the more interesting and relevant you must be to your audience.
But Google?s strategy is much more than just SEO and search, it recognizes that by integrating social into its broader tools it changes the game for how social can be used for business. As users it provides rich and relevant experiences, helping us to easily share and connect with similar people through communities or chatting to family online through hangouts.
Scott Huffman, Engineering Director for Search Quality at Google tells has said ?Google?s going to know when my flight is, whether my package has gotten here yet and where my wife is and how long it?s going to take her to get home this afternoon. [...] Of course, Google knows that stuff.? Of course all relies on on you opting in to allow Google about you ? but increasingly, opting in is the default.
But what does this mean for business?
Google is interested in connecting how social relevance reflects in our search, content and connections. This granular data of what we like, what are hobbies are, our passions, who we listen to (read), who we and what (e.g. communities) we connect to; provides an incredibly powerful set of data. This data can be used to market products and services to us not only in a more personalised way but also using evidence/recommendations from our connections. If you take into account the data from mobile searches you have a very detailed picture of how people behave. Google can use this to serve better ads, yes it makes money remember, that in turn we find ?fit? to who we are.
Google is providing us with tools to help us create and share media, explore and discover people and content as well as purely be useful e.g. navigation and Google Places ? i.e. find local restaurants, see ratings?
As Google Fellow Amit Singhal noted on the Official Google Blog:
We?re transforming Google into a search engine that understands not only content, but also people and relationships.
This is one of those game changing shifts in the opportunities it presents to connect and build your brand with people. It also makes businesses very transparent and open.
Understanding How Google Plus Relates Compares to Other Social Networks
You have probably heard this before but Google+ affects your SEO ranking but I will go into more detail on this and how to optimise your Google Plus in Part 2.
Guy Kawasaki provided a nice summary of the differences between Twitter, Facebook and Google+:
Twitter = Perspectives.
Twitter is great for getting or sending immediate perspectives on news and events. In other words, if you want to learn what is trending, get peoples instant responses and have short 140 character chats then Twitter is for you. In short, Twitter is for real-time perspectives.
Facebook= People.
Facebook is the way to learn what?s going on in the lives of people you already know (friends, relatives, and colleagues). It?s great for learning that they have cats that do odd things, that they went to a great party, or that they had sex, kittens, or children. In short, Facebook is for people.
Google+ = Passions.
Google+ enables you to pursue your passions with people you don?t know. Your friends and family on Facebook probably do not share your passion for photography, but on Google+ you can have a fun with a community of photographers or singers or techies. In short, Google+ is for passions.
What the Plus!: Google+ for the Rest of Us by Guy Kawasaki
How Businesses Can Benefit From Google Plus
Before diving into the detail in part 2 I thought I would list why as a business you need to learn how to use Google Plus to power your social marketing.
- Authorship ? to help you build your identity and across the web
- Improve your SEO performance
- Join and/or build an online community related to your customers passions e.g. an Italian restaurant could have a Italian Recipe/Cooking Community
- As a tool to help connect team members and build team relationships ? re: hangouts
- Share events that you organise
- Promote your blog articles
- To build your brand following
- Hold your own webinars (hangouts through your business page
The key to the future is relevance and context and experience.
Chris Brogan has talked about Google+ as a being social backplane more than a social network ? because of the integration it offers with Google Search, YouTube, Gmail and other Google products, it ties together all these services, giving you a consistent identity and ability to connect and share with your connections.
Part 2 covers SEO tips, how to get more Google+ followers, use hashtags and build engagement
How are you using Google+ for your business
Source: http://www.tribalcafe.co.uk/how-to-use-google-plus-to-power-part-1-your-social-marketing/
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Fox Sports has not determined why rope snapped
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) ? Fox Sports says on Monday it still had not determined why an overhead TV camera cable snapped during the Coca-Cola 600.
The network says a full investigation is underway and use of the camera is suspended indefinitely. Earlier, NASCAR said it would wait for Fox Sports to conclude its review before deciding if such technology would be used in future races.
Charlotte Motor Speedway said 10 people were injured when part of the drive rope landed in the grandstand; three were taken to hospitals. All were checked out and released soon after.
Several drivers, including then-leader Kyle Busch, reported damage to their cars from the rope.
The network said the system was provided by Austrian company CAMCAT. The rope that failed was certified for a breaking strength of 9,300 pounds.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/fox-sports-not-determined-why-rope-snapped-215921105.html
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Flood warnings remain in sodden San Antonio
Raw chopper video shows rescuers coming to the aid of a man stranded on the roof of a building after floodwaters submerged the structure in San Antonio, Texas.
By Patrick Garrity and Christopher Nelson, NBC News
Two people are dead and 130 others were rescued from powerful flood waters after heavy rain pummeled the San Antonio area.
Flash-flooding swept cars and a city bus off main streets Saturday as storms dumped more than a foot of rain on the city in 24 hours.
One person, a 17-year-old, remains missing in the city of?Schertz, northeast of San Antonio.
The majority of rescues were people trapped in their vehicles in low-lying areas of the city, San Antonio Fire Department spokesman Christian Bove told NBC News.
Bove said a 29-year-old woman was trapped in her vehicle and tried to escape the rising water by climbing onto the car's roof. She was washed away, and her body was found down the road against a fence.
A woman in her mid-60s was found dead hours after her car was swept away in Leon Creek, Bove said. He said a rescue boat had just reached her car when the car rolled over, knocking the firefighters into the water. By the time they were able to get back into the boat, the car was submerged and they last sight of it, Bove said. ?
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A San Antonio metro bus sits in floodwaters after it was swept off the road during heavy rains.
Bove said said dozens of homes suffered flood damage and part of the roof of an apartment building collapsed.
Flooding along the San Antonio River in Bexar County outside the city forced evacuation of more than 60 people, county spokeswoman Laura Jesse said. She said at least 16 people were rescued from vehicles but there were no reports of injuries or fatalities in the county.
A small tornado touched down in the suburb of Live Oak, causing minor damage to homes, a hospital and a medical building, the National Weather Service confirmed.
Weather Channel Meteorologist Nick Wiltgen said San Antonio received 12.16 inches of rain in the 24 hours ending at 11 a.m. Central Time on Saturday. That is just shy of the 24-hour record for the city of 13.35 inches in October 1998.
Bove said the city was expecting more rain overnight.
The Weather Service extended a flash flood watch for the area until noon local time Sunday.
Eric Gay / AP
A man surveys floodwaters caused by heavy rains Saturday in San Antonio.
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If people had read the article they'd see that they were running what amounted to unlicensed casinos. That may not sound like such a big deal, but an unlicensed casino can rig everything and nobody ever inspects the equipment. Licensed casinos have to play by certain legal rules and their equipment has to be inspected to make sure it's actually an honest fleecing when they get all your money. If you're going to run a business you need to know the law and abide by it.
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Also you probably can be a tech writer now and have $400 be the most you've ever laid out for a bit of equipment, but wow...posted by Artw at 6:19 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
"To be a blogger today makes you feel a little like Norma Desmond after silent movies were replaced by talkies: ?I'm still big; it's the internet that got small!??Pretty much.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 6:22 AM on May 24 [5 favorites] And now I'm trying to think of the oldest piece of electronics gear I have that I use regularly, and I think it might be my Roku, which is sort of sad.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 6:28 AM on May 24 I like old tech. There's something about newer gadgets that just have to do all the things, the most obvious example being the smartphone. It seems to have creeped in to everything now, though, like cameras that are now camcorders and GPS receivers and wifi hotspots and whatever else they can cram in there.
On the other hand, I look at some of the stuff I still have stashed in drawers and closets and wonder how the hell did that ever fit in my pocket?!
Some stuff I have around that I still use:
-An old Garmin eTrex GPS, black and white screen. It needs a database update but is otherwise very usable.
-Two manual typewriters, a Remington and a portable Royal. Mostly showpieces now but they're useful for printing addresses on envelopes and other stuff like that. I wrote most of my papers in high school on the Royal.
-The cameras, oh god the cameras. Two manual Canons from the '60s, a couple of Pentax knockoffs, and two TLRs. I avoided digital until I didn't have a darkroom anymore.
Perhaps the oldest piece of tech I still use on a regular basis is the autopilot in the plane. That right there is an analog computer original to the airplane (so... manufactured sometime in the 70s I believe).
posted by backseatpilot at 6:29 AM on May 24 [3 favorites]
(Remington Rand 5 Deluxe, if you're curious)
It'll be a nice addition. I fell in love with the model at a recent typewriter event, and I figure it'll give me the kick in the pants to start writing regularly and with discipline outside of work. Strictly speaking, I've often thought about getting a typewriter, but was never really impressed with the idea of getting a typewriter just to have a typewriter. But finding a specific model that was a joy to use? That is indeed the ticket.
People often forget that it's not about the newest technology, but about the best technology for the job. Try everything, find what works for you!
posted by Eideteker at 6:29 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
Say what?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:31 AM on May 24 [4 favorites]
Parents are holding onto an old rotary dial phone, even though they have more modern phones around the house.
posted by ZeusHumms at 6:31 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
posted by showbiz_liz at 6:33 AM on May 24 [2 favorites] I have a glass window. I can look through it to see what's happening outside without actually going outside. It's wonderful.
posted by RonButNotStupid at 6:35 AM on May 24 [16 favorites] I love outdated gear. I have a 12 year old Metz strobe I use with a brand new Fuji system. I have a Model M keyboard that came from an IBM RS/6000 Unix workstation - I use it with my Macs and Linux boxes.
I buy new outdated gear, because sometimes, the design was done right from the beginning: Cape Cod weeder and Yankee screwdriver and Opinel pocket knife. They offer the satisfaction of work being done well, which is actually hard to find in a tool.
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:36 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
An Arrow Portable Typewriter that's older than my parents. I it use when I have to fill out paper forms (though I'm looking to replace it with a 1980s era Smith Corona so the kids can fill out their own darn forms and practice typing).
A push button phone that's probably from the mid 1980s that we use when the power is out.
A lava-rock pestle and mortar that is merely a replicate of one I grew up with for smashing food into bits.
A tape deck / bookshelf stereo that dates from my high school years. I should try my tape/ipod converter from my old car to see it it works ... with my iPod mini that the kids use as a "wake up" alarm.
posted by tilde at 6:37 AM on May 24
Get the right kind, and you'll be able to see into the past.
posted by Chrysostom at 6:39 AM on May 24
Yankee push drill (original, not the $70 replica)
A Bostich stapler that shames all the bigger Swingline things that are supposedly the high standard now
Handspring Visor
posted by Kirth Gerson at 6:43 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] God forbid we forget to consume the latest crap.
posted by Omon Ra at 6:45 AM on May 24 Just the other day I thought it was kind of funny that the main thing advertised in Wired magazine seems to be watches. Even I don 't use those anymore and I am an old.
posted by srboisvert at 6:45 AM on May 24 [3 favorites] If we aren't limited to electronic gear, I have multiple machining items from the early-to-mid 20th century. Lathe and mill were built in the mid-50s and some of the tooling (micrometers and whatnot) are likely from before that. One thread gauge I have is from the 1890s. All bought used, obvs, and for very reasonable prices compared to original and also compared to buying a comparable thing now.
Also many old (hand-powered) garden implements.
posted by DU at 6:46 AM on May 24
No smartphone for me. I'm still rocking my venerable VX-5300.
Computers are a different sort of beast, though. I still have my PowerCenter 150 (OS 8!) but it sits unused these days. My PowerMac 2x2 G5 is still being used by my son, but only rarely.
posted by Thorzdad at 6:54 AM on May 24
I was very sad when my old Handspring Edge bit the dust. That was a fine little pocket computer. The Treo really paved the way for the iPhone.
posted by Slap*Happy at 6:55 AM on May 24
posted by Nelson at 6:55 AM on May 24 [7 favorites] Silly Nelson, cell phones aren't for voice calls. Transmitting the human voice is a secondary use case.
posted by gilrain at 6:59 AM on May 24 [4 favorites] I'm an incorrigible thrower-of-things-out, so I think the oldest piece of tech in my house is a TI-89 calculator, which is fairly old tech but is still sold new.
posted by gilrain at 7:02 AM on May 24 Silly Nelson, cell phones aren't for voice calls. Transmitting the human voice is for backwards compatibility with meat Popsicles .
FTFY
posted by tilde at 7:03 AM on May 24 [6 favorites]
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posted by supercres at 7:08 AM on May 24 [2 favorites]
Goodness knows an iPhone in San Francisco or New York certainly isn't voice capable. But you're only proving my point that landlines aren't obsolete. Wired phones deliver lovely voice quality. As a bonus they work even without power in the house.
posted by Nelson at 7:11 AM on May 24 [3 favorites]
posted by rmd1023 at 7:12 AM on May 24 Just last week I fired up the ol' Laserdisc machine and watched "Let It Be". Today I'll be making DVDs of the 1984 World Series sourced from the Betamax tape I made (in 1984). Still having problems finding blank cartridges for my 8-Track recorder/player, though.
posted by TDavis at 7:12 AM on May 24 [2 favorites] You can order a car stereo from Amazon, but it doesn't come with someone to put it in, and as someone who has built my own PCs on a number of occasions, that process has intimidated me ever since an actual professional once installed my ex's car stereo in such a way that it disabled the turn signals. Which is, really, the reason I just have the stock tape deck in my car, too. I briefly had a bluetooth FM adapter. It worked terribly. In practical terms, if I'm in the car alone? I usually listen with one earbud in.
posted by Sequence at 7:14 AM on May 24 I carry a pocket watch . Makes my wife absolutely insane to see a chain coming out of my pocket (in this part of the U.S., a chain going from your belt to your pocket is more closely identified with people who wear camouflage underwear), but there you go.
posted by Mooski at 7:16 AM on May 24 [2 favorites] Also the only phone in my house is a big black Bakelite rotary and I wear suspenders and wool shirts and I may or may not be unstuck in time.
posted by The Whelk at 7:16 AM on May 24 [7 favorites] Oh right, and the pocket watch, and the vests, and piano....
posted by The Whelk at 7:17 AM on May 24 Aw, I need to get the spring in my pocket watch replaced, but I honestly don't know where I would go to do it. So it sits, alone, in my jewelry drawer with three wristwatches and a wrist sundial.
I also have a couple of fountain pens, but I bought them new in the last month, so I don't think that counts.
I do have a huge pile of dot matrix printer paper I use for scratch work. Been burning through it for almost ten years and it's finally almost gone. Tearing the sides off is the best part. I miss making banners in Print Shop Deluxe on my IIgs.
posted by Elementary Penguin at 7:21 AM on May 24 [2 favorites]
I also have a couple of power tools from the seventies that I inherited from my dad, a 1/2 drill and a rotary saw, that make most modern power tools look like plasticy pieces of junk in comparison.
posted by octothorpe at 7:22 AM on May 24
posted by sandettie light vessel automatic at 7:22 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] My wife does most of her sewing on treadle and handcrank sewing machines that are more than a hundred years old.
posted by drezdn at 7:25 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] HP-12C (my Dad's). which I will often use despite having two computers with R and or Excel open. Actually, I most often use it to check results from R or Excel.
posted by shothotbot at 7:26 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] I just updated the software on my circa 2001 Garmin eTrex GPS last light. Going hiking this weekend and we are trying to find something that is off trail and all I have is the GPS coordinates of the historical marker. I hadn't used the eTrex in probably 8 years but I guess I should not have been surprised that there is still an active user base and Garmin even updated the software as recently as 2008.
I've got a mountain bike in the garage that I bought in 1992. It still works just fine.
posted by COD at 7:27 AM on May 24
The oldest thing I use every day is a Waterman fountain pen that's about 90 years old.
posted by ardgedee at 7:27 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
posted by jimmythefish at 7:27 AM on May 24 ...my TV is from 1998.
And this is being typed on an iPad 1.
We fear change.
posted by The Whelk at 7:29 AM on May 24
We have two TVs in the house. a 52" rear projection that I bought in 2002, and a 36" tube TV that I also bought in 2002. The tube is going on the 36" TV, the picture is fuzzy for about 5 minutes when you first turn it on. Given it's that last tube TV I'll ever own, I'm hesitating on replacing it, even though the picture quality is deteriorating noticeably.
posted by COD at 7:31 AM on May 24
I use fountain pens regularly - including to write actual checks which I put in the mail to pay bills - but they're less than 15 years old.
posted by rmd1023 at 7:34 AM on May 24
Wise man.
I just inherited my dad's old (i.e. mid-'70s) Kenwood KR-5600 stereo receiver. It looks and sounds great. And my wife still uses her 35mm camera.
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:39 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
Since precious few manual primes with nice dampened focusing motions exist these days (or none? not sure) and the optics haven't really undergone any tech progress...
HP-12C (my Dad's). which I will often use despite having two computers with R and or Excel open. Actually, I most often use it to check results from R or Excel.
This is still the standard in accounting firms AFAIK. It works, it's durable, people understand it.
posted by selfnoise at 7:40 AM on May 24
How did you manage that, by the way? If I remember correctly, mine came with a weird serial-to-proprietary cable and I don't think my computer even has a serial port anymore...
posted by backseatpilot at 7:40 AM on May 24
Personally, I've got a calculator (casio fx-115) from high school in 1992. My chemistry teacher made me get it after I asked if I could use a log table help me on tests - for fun, I'd been multiplying, dividing, adding, and subtracting out longhand, but powers are a little trickier. In college, we were required to get HP48 graphing calculators. I accidentally ran over mine, bluescreening it (literally - LCD leak). That Casio got me through the rest of engineering school.
posted by notsnot at 7:48 AM on May 24
My mother-in-law refused to pay the extra fee to get touch-tone on her phone line at her house when the phone company made the switch over. Therefore, all the land lines are pulse tone/rotary dial.
Otherwise, it's antique hand tools.
posted by plinth at 7:51 AM on May 24
posted by The Card Cheat at 7:55 AM on May 24 Two items I'd list:
1. A Radio Shack remote control light switch. Two boxes, one mission, which it has performed flawlessly since its purchase in 1992.
2. A Fisher stereo receiver I purchased in 1980 that won't die and actually sounds pretty sweet. Indestructible. Analogue tuner and VR meters are the cherries on top.
posted by JimInLoganSquare at 7:58 AM on May 24
Now what's more outdated, the guitar? Or the punk rock?
posted by lumpenprole at 8:00 AM on May 24 [2 favorites]
posted by octothorpe at 8:07 AM on May 24 I've never owned an autofocus film camera with motor drive. My main bodies are F3s, the Bronica SQ-A gets pulled out on occasion, and I love those 70s Japanese rangefinders with fast lenses. They feel so good and usually aren't more than $60 used for a small, unobtrusive camera with a 1.8 normal lens.
I suppose CDs are outdated in a certain way, and since they don't have the tactile nostalgia or purported quality of vinyl, we won't see a fashionable renaissance anytime soon. I've got some of those and the machines to play them? frustratingly so in my car, where I also have a tape adapter hooked up with an infernal cable that always tangles.
The thing I plug into that cable? Working 3G iPod.
posted by a halcyon day at 8:07 AM on May 24
I think he meant that $400 was the most he'd spent on anything at that time (i.e., his late teens/early twenties), not the most he has ever spent on anything.
posted by asnider at 8:08 AM on May 24
How did you manage that, by the way?
You can buy a USB to that weird 4-pin connector on the Garmin cable on Ebay.
posted by COD at 8:10 AM on May 24
If only it had caller ID. Hardly anyone calls on the land-line that isn't trying to sell me something...
posted by Windopaene at 8:16 AM on May 24
This.
I get so much more joy out of writing notes by hand, or marking up printouts of written work before going back to edit them on the computer. And, if you don't care about gettin' all Moleskine- or Field-Notes-fancy, a tiny spiral-bound notebook is pretty darned cheap. I keep on waiting for the perfect e-ink writing tool to come along, but until it does I'ma keep killing trees.
posted by Going To Maine at 8:16 AM on May 24
Oh man, my parents have two of them, and for the longest time it took me forever to figure out why milkshakes made in them tasted better than any other milkshakes. And then I realized the distinct flavor / smell was ozone, because the motor on that thing is just a giant coil of copper and magnets in the base.
posted by mrzarquon at 8:19 AM on May 24 [5 favorites]
I have a sort of "long bet" style thing going with a friend that GPS is probably going to be in hindsight one of the great advances of the late 20th century, second only to the Internet. But I think it's one of those things that people take so completely for granted that it doesn't seem as impressive as it ought to.
I'd love to find a working Magellan NAV 1000, which was the first GPS that I ever actually saw. It was so expensive at the time that the guy who had it -- who wasn't even the owner, it was owned by a government agency -- got visibly nervous anytime anyone else was holding it.
I bought a Magellan GPS 300 a few years later as a result of that demonstration, which I still own, and still works just fine. I think it was basically the first reasonably-priced consumer oriented GPS receiver. It's almost useless without a map (all it does is tell you the coordinates where you are, or the distance and direction to a known point that you enter), but I can't really bear to get rid of it. It was such an amazing gadget when I got it, because it seemed like magic. It's just a black box with some buttons, and you turn it on and wait a while and maybe wave it around a little, and then it tells you exactly where you are. "How does it work?" "Satellites." That felt like living in the future.
posted by Kadin2048 at 8:20 AM on May 24 [2 favorites]
posted by Jahaza at 8:20 AM on May 24 Unfortunately I lost my TI-83 in college, but MuddDude still uses the TI-89 he got in high school. My dad pretends to still use his slide rule, but that's just for show.
I pull out the old Motorola RAZR when I'm between phones - it's a great phone, and I'm always tempted to keep using it and use a smart"phone" with no data plan just as a pocket computer.
posted by muddgirl at 8:21 AM on May 24
posted by JoeXIII007 at 8:21 AM on May 24 If only it had caller ID. Hardly anyone calls on the land-line that isn't trying to sell me something...
You can get a Caller ID box with glorious early '90s product design for $10 online.
posted by Slap*Happy at 8:23 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
When Caller ID first came out as a feature, they made external CID displays that you plugged in between your phone jack and your actual telephone. My parents still have one, because their phone doesn't have a CID display itself.
If I was going to go and buy one today I'd probably check at Goodwill, for some reason they always have a pile of them next to the old phones.
I'm pretty sure the phone company sent them out for free at one point, in order to encourage people to sign up for Caller ID service (which used to cost $3.95/month or something like that).
posted by Kadin2048 at 8:24 AM on May 24
Oldest piece of non-tech I have is probably my father's set of Keuffel & Esser drafting tools.
posted by Numenius at 8:33 AM on May 24
A Braun HL1 desk fan, which is near dead silent but still pushes a decent breeze.
My grandmother's Adler 108T, which is easier to reach for than a software calculator and is a 'separate screen' I can carry around the room.
A 50lb 1960 Raleigh Superbe Roadster I use for commuting and have used for 150+km day rides alongside carbon fiber riders, just because I'm kind of a dick.
Also, I also use a cassette adaptor for my music player in my car. They seem to have superior sound quality to fm transmitters, but I've yet to try out those bluetooth audio dongles yet.
posted by Extopalopaketle at 8:39 AM on May 24
Next after that is probably my iPod "classic." I'm pretty sure I actually still have my old Discman in a box in the basement somewhere, but I don't actually use it so it doesn't count.
If we're going to speak more broadly and talk about non-electronic type stuff, then probably some of the old hand tools I got after my grandfather died. A couple of them are probably genuine antiques, but I actually use them because they're well-built tools that are a joy to work with.
posted by asnider at 8:49 AM on May 24
Mechanical: My most-used spinning wheel dates from the mid-1800s. Outstanding design, none of my modern wheels can beat it for making fine lace yarns.
posted by Mary Ellen Carter at 8:51 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
posted by The Whelk at 8:53 AM on May 24 [8 favorites] At this moment I have 27 IBM-5081 cards in my shirt pocket, 3 of which are not yet written upon.
I finally brought in my model M keyboard to work a month ago, but it's flakey. I need to find a 7/32" thinwall socket so I can clean it out.
posted by MtDewd at 8:53 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] We still have a landline (because 911 in Canada doesn't work on cellphones or IP phones), and I still carry a Blackberry (for work), but the piece of old tech that the family fought over was my Grandma's lid opener. A major rift between my sister-in-law and myself was averted only by a fortuitous find at a garage sale.
posted by bonehead at 8:55 AM on May 24 Between my L.A Noire binges and period movie/novel binges it was a joke that I could slip easily into 1947 without missing much but then I found myself in the smokey backstage of a burlesque theater with a no cell phone policy and william morris wallpaper, drinking an old fashioned and wearing about 40 pounds of heavy wool clothing (all period, of course) and suddenly it wasn't really a joke anymore.
posted by The Whelk at 8:57 AM on May 24 [3 favorites] Count me in as another person who has a cassette deck in the car. I use a cassette adapter to either play my hand-me-down 2gen iPod mini or my smart phone. I also play cassettes sometimes, as I made some interesting mix tapes sourced from the radio back in junior high.
I have my TI-81 calculator somewhere that I got 21 years ago.
I also have my Grandpa's soldering iron. It's probably 40 years old by now. Mr. Nerd uses it.
posted by luckynerd at 9:00 AM on May 24
posted by MtDewd at 9:05 AM on May 24 I've moved a lot the last few years, so things have gotten purged on a regular basis. I think the oldest tech I have that I still use regularly is my stereo receiver, from around 2000. It's old enough that the cutting edge video technology at the time was S-video, and it has no HD capability. I also have a 5-disc carousel cd changer, but I don't use that so often now that I can just plug my iPod with my entire music library into the receiver.
My car still has a tape deck, but it's from 2003 so that's somewhat excusable. I have a tape hookup for my iPod in there since there's no other way to connect.
posted by LionIndex at 9:09 AM on May 24
The last one I bought, I found at an Auto Zone auto-parts store. The sound quality is better than those FM transmitters, but not great. My '02 Subaru's tape deck doesn't accept most of the adapters.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 9:12 AM on May 24
posted by Pruitt-Igoe at 9:15 AM on May 24 i still have a walkman. occasionally i still use it to listen to old mixtapes at work.
posted by fuzzypantalones at 9:26 AM on May 24 I have a number of antique-ish woodworking hand tools. I say antique-ish, because antique is kind of a precious term to use for old restored hand tools that actually get used. Also, my body is pretty old tech, except for the machine that breathes for me when I sleep. That is one futuristic cyborg face-hugger, there. Also, add me to the pocketwatch crew. Wrist watches cease working in my presence, but I've only had to have the pocketwatch repaired once. The watch itself isn't more than five years old, but the tech is plenty old.
posted by It's Raining Florence Henderson at 9:46 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] From TFA: I think it's the sound system in our car 2003 Volkswagen Golf TDI
Oh the humanity. What an indignity having to drive a ten year old car. My '94 Accord has a tape deck. I use a cassette adapter to play tunes from my iPhone. FYI, when you're not using the tape adapter, the cassette slot is the perfect size to hold your iPhone or iPod.
Early 50s Pacemaker Speed Graphic, complete with lightsaber flash. It's the best camera I own.
It's one of the first serious cameras I used. I used to shoot a lot of Polaroid 55 P/N film. You needed to wash the negatives immediately, or put them in a water bath to hold them. I remember once doing an aerial photography shoot with a bucket of water between my feet.
But seriously, what the hell is this about these guys and "retro" stuff? Do people throw out everything after 2 years? These idiots are gushing about retro techology from 2003. Hey my everyday shoes are twice as old as that.
posted by charlie don't surf at 9:59 AM on May 24 [1 favorite]
- a 1972 Texas Instruments desk calculator at work
- a 1960s rotary phone at home
- a 100+ year old wall and mantle clock in my house
- a 1980's tape deck answering machine attached to my landline
- a 1982 TI-99/4a computer (this is the only "gaming console" in- my house, I've had it since new)
- a 1970's flip alarm clock
- a 1960's tube fm/am radio
- a 1950's toaster
- a 1988 IBM Model M keyboard
To hell with new. If it ain't broke, why replace it?
posted by fimbulvetr at 10:24 AM on May 24
posted by ckape at 10:34 AM on May 24 I'm not sure which is older, the Palm Pro (with still functional serial cradle) or the Toshiba Libretto 70. Of course neither is as old as my S-100 bus dual 8 inch floppy disc PC running CP/M.
posted by cmdnc0 at 10:39 AM on May 24 I still shoot photos with my grandfather's 1953 Rolleicord. Not lots, but I get through maybe a dozen rolls of film a year. There's something beautiful about the constraints you adopt when you pick it up, especially when using black-and-white film: there's no zoom, nothing electronic at all, and the images are square, so you don't even have to decide which direction to hold the camera. It's just aperture, shutter speed, focus, and composition, a totally pure photographic experience.
Also expensive as hell, and it takes a week or two after you've shot the photo before you get to find out what you captured. So I use modern digital cameras too... but I suspect there will always be a place for the Rollei in my camera bag.
posted by Mars Saxman at 10:39 AM on May 24 [2 favorites]
posted by theora55 at 10:55 AM on May 24 Unix.
Except it's not "outdated," because that word is ridiculous.
So probably the chief reason I dislike the tech industry is the fetishization of the new. The chief reason I like digital computing, though, is because it is a fantastic tool for preserving, extending, and adapting old ideas. I am quite glad that there's a line running more or less directly from an OS bashed together in the late 60s on a PDP-7 to the operating system that runs the macbook I'm typing this on. In his "In The Beginning was the Command Line...", Neal Stephenson describes Unix as the "Gilgamesh epic of the nerds," and that is the aspect of technology that I'm attracted to. I have a hunch that this aspect of tech ? the Don Knuth, Ken Thompson, Richard Stallman line ? is what's actually worthwhile about these neat little machines, with the gadgety froth out of Kevin Kelly's corner of the bay area being an irrelevant epiphenomenon (that is, when it's not straightforwardly pernicious).
When it comes to technology, I'm sort of like a Christian who's hung up on apostolic descent. If you want to impress me, don't tell me how new your toys or ideas are, tell me their histories.
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 11:00 AM on May 24 [8 favorites]
posted by jimmythefish at 11:22 AM on May 24 My father-in-law passed away recently. I was pleased to have his HP-11C and his HP-41CV calculators. I love RPN and calculators that use it are darned hard to find these days. Still trying to decide which one will end up on my desk at work.
We also discovered a Commodore 64 and disk drive in his attic. The kids are moderately intrigued by it, but they would have been more impressed if it was an NES or something like that.
posted by lhauser at 11:28 AM on May 24
posted by The Whelk at 9:58 AM on May 24 [2 favorites +] [!]
These seem like song lyrics.
posted by sweetkid at 11:44 AM on May 24
There is something equally despicable about fetishization of the old. I especially despise people that think something is vintage when I bought it new.
Example: My SOL-20 microcomputer. I built it from a kit, it predates CP/M (slightly). A retrocomputing geek (yes it's retro not vintage or antique) told me I ought to restore and sell it soon, since anyone who is interested in buying it is probably elderly or retired, and the natural market will die off soon. Literally dead and buried in the cemetery.
So I'll tell you where these two opposite trends converge. I read an article somewhere today complaining about the profusion of articles that patronizingly tell "oldsters" how to use those newfangled computer devices. Then it points out that they are the generation that invented those devices, being lectured about them by little kids who grew up with those inventions and have no clue how they work.
posted by charlie don't surf at 11:46 AM on May 24 [3 favorites]
posted by You Can't Tip a Buick at 11:49 AM on May 24 [1 favorite] I have an old no-name tower computer running Linux on a Pentium 3. I keep it because it's got a Zip drive and a floppy drive. You never know...
I never had an 8-track tape player. Skipped that one completely. So I've only had to buy my dinosaur music 2 or 3 times.
posted by Kirth Gerson at 12:23 PM on May 24
posted by jennaratrix at 1:18 PM on May 24 Is that a see-through coral-reef Magic 8-Ball on Kevin Kelly's outdated phone, or just wishful thinking on my part?
posted by limeonaire at 4:25 PM on May 24 Oldest tech in possession is a Hobart mixer with the glass bowl and my M keyboard. I also have some vintage yard and carpentry tools from my grandfather from the turn of the 20th century when he built his house for my grandmother. An old piece of technology in my kitchen? A hand crank, manual meat grinder gotten at an estate sale.
I am trying to decide if I will have grave goods like my father. I think his casket was filled with stuff and the six burly people carrying his casket looked like they were under some strain.
posted by jadepearl at 4:32 PM on May 24
I'm still using e, ?, and some other irrational constants that have been around since forever.
posted by jfuller at 5:49 PM on May 24 [2 favorites]
For a while, we had my mother's crockpot from the mid-1970s until we upgraded to a newer, bigger one. I think we gave the old one back to my mother, who probably still has it.
I still own the very first music CD I ever bought. It plays just fine.
posted by briank at 6:10 PM on May 24
posted by octothorpe at 6:57 PM on May 24 I'm another one with a cassette player in the car. And I have 19 years worth of tapes from when I used to be a reggae DJ. My daily driver computer at home is a 2001 G4 Mac that still runs OS9 so I can play some of my old games.
posted by a humble nudibranch at 3:47 AM on May 25 Treadle sewing machine. Works like a charm and will outlive me.
posted by windykites at 7:06 AM on May 25 I have too much old tech to itemize. Why replace working things with inferior if more recent and widely available iterations?
LaserJet 4 series, either the nuclear-hardened LJ4 itself, or the 4200 (still the best office workhorse there ever was.)
Chrome and wood Pioneer analog stereo equipment (70s and early 80s I think?)
Or the black plain looking Yamaha stuff from the late 80s through mid 90s.
kitchen appliances: old Osterizers (I now have two), a harvest gold kitchen aid stand mixer, a bulletproof 80s Cuisinart (DLC7), inherited Le Creuset and Corningware, good quality wood handled knives.
My dryer is probably 20+ years old. My parents had a set from early 70s that they kept on a Sears contract till Sears went down the tubes.
About a year ago I managed after many years of searching, to replace the 89 SAAB 900 convertible I grew up around with a nearly identical 91 with very low mileage. My other car is a limited commerative Grand Cherokee (the 5.9).
On preview, I have my grandmas ancient Singer now, maybe my GF will muster the patience to show stubby fingered me how to mend or make a few things; and I'd be lost without a Sony DreamMachine clock radio (problematic to replace these days, the ones available now suck).
Some things just dont need to be improved upon, and later changes are really about wider availability, cheaper production, and so on. Which has its pluses but not for longevity or capability.
posted by snuffleupagus at 7:08 AM on May 25 [1 favorite]
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